Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 2 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 3 | This time , alas , there is little to cheer and they need to pick themselves up for this Saturday 's basement battle against Chester . |
| 4 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 5 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 6 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 7 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 8 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 9 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 10 | You wo n't be able to keep it up for more than a week . ’ |
| 11 | Q ) I was only half watching Question of Sport last night ( trying to psyche myself up for Wild Palms — you need your brain on full alert to make head or tail of it ) , but was that Bremner scoring against Celtic in the EC Semi ? |
| 12 | We have to harden ourselves up for this . |
| 13 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 14 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 15 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |